POPULAR non-listed property vehicles underperformed dir-ect property investments during 2005, new figures reveal.

The Ministry of Defence has made back payments to more than 1800 ex-service personnel to rectify mistakes made in pension calculations.

PALA Investments has launched a new mining fund integrating hedge fund, private equity and venture capital strategies.

UK property mandate

EDF ENERGY has enlisted the National Association of Pension Funds' Pensions Force to encourage more young workers to join the firm's final salary scheme.

THE GOVERNMENT will breach its own guidelines for resolving scheme deficits by plugging the MPs' fund shortfall over 15 years, a Tory MP claims.

Pensions reform minister James Purnell is "calling time" on scheme wind-up bad practice by insisting the process should take no longer than two years, experts claim.

SOME 90pc of couples will be lifted clear of means-testing by 2050, the government predicts.

Ministerial tinkering with the Local Government Pension Scheme shows no signs of abating.

LDI ‘the way forward'